Sotos wrote:Why are some people so selectively sensitive about racism? The Germans for years now have been promoting racist stereotypes about Greeks (and others) using terms such as "PIGS" to describe millions of people and their mentality about other races is very clearly recorded in history and apparently unchanged. Even more hypocritical is when the "sensitive ones" are Turks who support ethnic cleansing as a "solution" and deny the genocides they committed (at least the Germans admitted their own)
It is not just Germans who use the abbreviation PIGS to refer to the countries Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. It is widely used around the world and is a function of the 'abbreviated' world we live in. What are the 'non racist' possible alternative abbreviations for those 4 countries ? SIGP ? GIPS ? The idea that the use (worldwide) of the abbreviation PIGS is clearly indicative of
German racism, whilst ignoring or excusing or denying that an individual expression of the kind 'Germans are smelly' is racist , is indeed to be 'selectively sensitive' about racism.
As to the idea that Germans 'mentality about other races' is unchanged today as it is recorded in History (meaning as it was in Nazi Germany) is just ludicrous.
And for the umpteenth time. I am NOT Turkish. I do not speak Turkish. I was not born in Turkey. I do not hold and have never held Turkish citizenship. I have no relatives that I know of who live in Turkey or were born in Turkey. I do not and never have considered myself Turkish or described myself to others as Turkish. I have no legal right to Turkish nationality. I am both Cypriot and British. My father was Cypriot and my Mother is English. I consider myself both British and Cypriot and that is how I have always described myself. I was born in Britain. I hold a British passport and have a legal birth right to RoC citizenship under the RoC's own laws (and it the UK does leave the EU I may well choose to exercise said right to obtain a RoC passport). My relatives on my fathers side were born and live in Cyprus and have done for generations. So why is it Sotos given these facts, do the likes of you and GiG constantly, relentlessly persistently obdurately stubbornly and pigheadedly choose to describe me as a 'Turk' ? I suggest the reason you and posters like GiG do so is because you narrative, your world view, requires that I be a 'Turk' so you simply relentlessly describe and portray me as such despite and regardless of the overwhelming evidence that I am not.
And again for the umpteenth time, I do not 'support' 'ethnic cleansing' as solution in Cyprus. Never have. The idea that as a (part) Cypriot because I chose to come and live in Cyprus in an area in which my father grew up in and in which all my Cypriot relatives lived in at the time and still do, rather than not come to Cyprus at all or come to live but in area that was not where my father grew up and in which none of my Cypriot relatives now live in, therefore I am and can only be someone who 'supports ethnic cleansing in Cyprus' is not just totally untrue in reality, it is also pure intellectual laziness. It is perfectly possible to be a
Cypriot (or TC if YOU prefer) that lives in the north of Cyprus and does not 'support' 'ethnic cleansing' as a 'solution' in Cyprus.
Does his imaginary community of Chirokitians also have a right to a separate and equal voice as Cypriots who are not Greek? 
